Snowed In

Well, winter is back with a vengeance. I’m not sure what the official totals are, but on my car there was 2 or more feet this morning. I was so tired and I didn’t want to deal with it. I was up early, but I still realized that even if I got the car cleaned off quickly, I wouldn’t make it in time to meet my mom and drop off the kids. Plan B would then be to drive 20 min to mom’s house and then 35 min to work. Only with the weather the way it was this morning, I figured it would be 40 min to mom’s and over an hour to work. And that would be after I was already running late from cleaning off the car. I figured I would get to work around 9:30. Well that might not sound so bad, but if I get in late I have to stay later. I put on the weather channel at 5:50am. I learned that the snow was predicted to continue all day and that we were under a Severe Weather Advisory. I have a lot of vacation this year (5 weeks) and I am not behind right now on my contract. I just figured it wasn’t worth all the stress (white-knuckle driving with kids in tow) if I could just burn one vacation day and stay home. I do believe that if my husband had plowed yesterday, it wouldn’t have looked quite so daunting to me this morning. I don’t know how much we got, but nearest the garage, where our cars are parked was a real mess. The snow was as high as the car doors, and as I cleaned off the car, it got much deeper. The snow was so heaving I was making zero headway. I just gave up. My husband said that most of the driveway only had about 5 inches on it. I guess maybe I overreacted.




I am tired though, and I can get a few things done today. At least I didn’t call in “sick” right?